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Click-to-Cancel
This week, let’s consider the controversy surrounding the new “Click-to-Cancel” rule, issued this month in final form by the Federal Trade Commission.
Know Your Geek: FTC Details Imposter Scams from Surprising Directions
This week, let’s consider the Federal Trade Commission’s recent report on the top “cyber scams.”
FTC Lessons in Handling Sensitive Location Data
This week, let’s consider the FTC’s continued focus on sensitive location data. We’ll look at the lessons that can be learned from its latest actions, and provide a related thought on how irony emerges when considering local governments' widespread adoption of Smart City technologies.
Blackbaud's FTC Deal: Delete Data, Amp Up Security
This week, let’s take a look at the Federal Trade Commission’s recent settlement with Blackbaud Inc, a service provider of software and services for more than 45,000 companies, and consider it as guidance on reasonable security measures and data retention practices.
FTC Cracks Down on Data Broker Sale of Sensitive Location Data
This week, let’s highlight the FTC’s first settlement with a data broker, which includes a proposed order banning the sale of sensitive geolocation data and containing sweeping requirements—to erase or anonymize previously collected data, verify supplier compliance, contract appropriately, and prevent data misuse by others, among other things.
Use of AI Facial Recognition by Rite Aid Banned by the FTC
This week, let’s consider the recent action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) imposing a five-year ban on Rite Aid's use of AI facial recognition technology.
FTC Submits Comments on AI, Copyright, Consumer Protection, and Competition
This week, let’s consider the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent submission of a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office addressing artificial intelligence (AI).
FTC Boldly Moves into a New Era of Data Minimization and Retention
This week, let’s look at how the Federal Trade Commission has placed its focus on data minimization and retention, and consider whether this could be an inflection point in data privacy regulation.
Revisions to the FTC’s Merger Guidelines?
This week, let’s listen to Kara Swisher’s interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan, and consider 5 takeaways associated the Chair’s comments on how the FTC is approaching revisions to its Merger Guidelines.